1) Workplace organization, political organizations and their military complexes, and criminal justice systems are the biggest contributors to surveillance studies. Another important form of modern surveillance is gossip and community surveillance. While surveillance studies focus on industrial and political forms of observation for control, person-to-person surveillance is an important study of behavior and social construction. This is related to both texts' themes of attributing surveillance to uncertainty or power struggle, where surveillance manifests when one individual feels threatened in their authority and exerts it onto someone else. For example, a community member criticizing another's action or a viewer judging someone's actions from their social media post.
2) I thought that both texts provided interesting insights on deconstructing a common binary "good or bad" idea of surveillance. While it invokes fears of being watched or controlled, surveillance can produce beneficial products, too. A "construction of profiles...could be used to discriminate against people even in advance of any wrongdoing" (Monahan and Wood xxiv), but at the same time 'protects' others from potential harm. I am curious about whether we should orient ourselves towards a pro-surveillance society of convenience and accessibility, or anti-surveillance for our own privacy and (perceived?) safety.